Mad Men.

I'm sure many MM fans would seek out the show if it was dropped by the BBC - but the BBC actually treat it quite well: once it starts, it stays in the same slot on BBC Four for the rest of its run.

Contrast this consistency with Channel 4's appalling record with US imports (moving them around in the schedule, then playing them on different channels, then dropping them). Even die-harRAB would struggle to keep up with that.

And on Sky Arts it would have an even smaller audience. Not what one of the all-time television greats deserves.

So the BBC do need telling to hang on to the show. That survey takes ten-fifteen minutes tops and is worthwhile.

As for tonight's episode: flawless writing and acting yet again - John Hamm is just brilliant - but Peggy: OMG! :eek::eek::eek: I just started shouting at the television when I realised what she was going to do. Where is Joan to keep her in check?!
 
Agree with everything there...a great episode focusing on the women & their various situations. Great to see Bets standing up to Don but can't help wondering where that one will go.

Peggy always seems so restrained & you just want her to burst out, scream, say something controversial - great performance though.

Oh, & Joan looked hot in, ahem, hot pants!! :D
 
I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by what happened to Peggy's baby. I also thought he was being looked after by her sister.

From the interview it looks like Weiner loves misdirecting the audience with little clues and hints that don't mean what you think!
 
Only recently got into this and now hooked !. Don Draper is dishy looking and so epitomes the 'man' of the time, but it breaks my heart when he cheats on his sweet model wife !.

Also i like the way it enRAB subtely every week, yet is a fantastic drama of the time.
 
Agree with all the comments, what a wonderful, stunning episode.

I happened to read a TV guide preview yesterday which described it as possibly the best TV of the decade so I anticipated it would be good and still it didn't disappoint. The only thing I could kick myself about is that, really, I'd rather have not known and be taken by even more surprise by quality of it (if you know what I mean!).

It was incredibly moving, especially Don's reaction to the death, from the way he refused to take the call and then all the way through to the manner in which he broke down. Incredible acting.

And I LOVE Roger. He probably gets some of the best lines in it.

I watch this series with my son and we both agree that it's the best thing on TV and we never want an episode to end. I even loved the music it ended with last night - was it Simon & Garfunkel?
 
I'm actually quite relived to have read this in your post - I thought it was just me! :o

I've always accepted Don as a lothario and gone with it - not least because Jon Hamm is such a hottie :D - but I'm really p*ssed off about the affair with the teacher. She chased him like mad, he held back, then she let him do all the running. She doesn't have much of a character to speak of and, despite Betty's flaws, I'd much rather Don was with her than someone who is little more than another means of him escaping reality (well, of course, it's not really reality - just the one he created for himself). I can't even remember her name.

But I sense there is the most almighty fireworks display coming and can't wait for next week's episode. If Betty confronts Don with the contents of that box, I'm not sure how he's going to get himself out of the hole he's dug for himself ... :eek:

(And I'm not going back to 'You people' - been there, done that! ;)).
 
Really enjoying this show....the 45 minutes go very quickly and all the characters are evolving albeit at different levels....a quality representation of the 60's....
 
She said "Maalox" (the indigestion remedy he'd been swigging). I thought that little gesture showed so much of their history of intimacy and the way they still feel about each other - it was the kind of gesture a wife might give her husband.
 
Reading the discussion of that ep. on some US forums, there were, not spoilers as such but conjecture that the guy in the white tux behind the bar "Connie" might turn out to be a major business player. How sexy was that when Don leapt over the bar - I can't resist Don :o

I think we can guess now who was nicking Melba toast and putting the empty box back in the cupboard - and it's not Carla! I wonder if Sally is on the road to delinquency.

I did wonder about the Gene/Sally relationship when he had her reading Gibbon with some rather age-inappropriate worRAB, but overall he seems to be paying her attention and concerned with how she's reacting to being ignored by her parents (I think he knew from the start she, not Carla had taken the $5). I hope Sally's too young for Gene to behave inappropriately the way he did when he mistook Betty for her mother and groped her.
 
Personally I think Jon Hamm looks a lot hotter when he's dressed as Don. I like him clean shaven. :) Peggy looks a lot different in real life. She looks good as a blonde. ;)John Slattery looks just like Roger!
 
The second series has ended but the third series is currently being filmed (though while it's due to start broadcasting in the USA in late summer, I don't believe it'll be on in the UK until 2010).
 
You saw nothing, and it would be quite easy to keep the actress in the dark about what was happening. She scrunched up her skirt and then stared almost hypnotised by the television. It's not like was actually "pretending to masturbate".

I should also add that the episode was directed by a woman, so I'm sure the set was a positive, non-uneasy environment. Not that a male director wouldn't do that, but even more so with it being a female director.
 
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